Revised: Realizations come when the lighting flows across the sky
Part one
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AU: Yep, it's another post-LMR fic. My version on what I would like Addison would do. This is the revised version.
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Addison gave Richard a brittle smile as she tried to keep it together as she walked down the hall with Miranda and Richard after Izzie's speech. She paused glancing behind her to see where Derek was. Her lips tightened as the realization of what was happening between Derek, Meredith and Finn. Blinked away the tears that had suddenly appeared, Addison caught up with Miranda and Richard.
She put a hand on Richard's arm stopping him before saying, "I quit, too, while I still have some dignity left."
She hugged Bailey and Richard tightly, whispering that she would call them from where ever she ended up before she turned to walk back to her husband, and his mistress. She smoothed her features hiding just how much her husband's quickie with his mistress had hurt her. Only her eyes showed a hint of the anguish and the heartache she was feeling. Addison trembled as she neared them, whether from anger or pain she wasn't sure.
Addison pressed herself against her husband's back as she reached into his pocket for their car keys, "Don't mind me," She whispered around the lump in her throat as her other hand deposited something in his other pocket. Addison avoided her husband's questioning eyes as she moved around him. She shot Meredith an icy glare as she headed around her to the stairs. Addison held her head high as she descended the stairs, not wanting them to just how much they had hurt her.
Derek's brow furrowed as he felt something settling in his pocket. Still staring intently at Meredith he reached in to see what it was. His breath caught in his throat as he felt something cold and metal. He looked down to see what his wife had left in his pocket. Hoping against hope that it wasn't what he thought it was.
The lighting illuminated Addison as she paused outside the main entrance taking one last look behind her. As she walked through the rain she saw Izzie Stevens walking slowing in front of her flanked by George O'Malley and Alex Karev. George was holding his coat over her head to shield her from the rain while Alex was trying to urge her to walk faster.
Tears just cascaded down Izzie's face as she waved them off saying, "You can't understand what I'm feeling."
Addison blinked back her tears as her heart went out to Izzie, who had also just lost the love of her life. Steeling herself, she walked over to them.
Pausing in front of Izzie she said, "I'm the only one who can understand. I lost the love of my life tonight, too."
They shared a look filled with understanding, pain and sorrow before Izzie's face just crumbled as she hugged Addison, "If you're in the living hell that I'm in. Then I'm so sorry. No one should feel this way."
"Yeah, that about describes it, a living hell," Addison said pulling away to wipe at her tears, "I think alcohol could help."
"Yeah," Izzie said, "It would at least make me feel numb."
George and Alex watched in confusion as Addison and Izzie headed towards Derek's car.
"What just happened?" George asked Alex as they watched the tail lights disappear.